Brazilian Teenager Kills Three Children, Two Workers in Daycare Center

Brazilian Teenager Kills Three Children, Two Workers in Daycare Center
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SAO PAULO—A teenager broke into a daycare center in southern Brazil and stabbed three children and two workers to death on Tuesday before being overpowered by police, officials said.

Municipal Education Secretary Gisela Hermann described a “horror scene” at the facility in Saudades, a town in Santa Catarina state. She told Reuters in a telephone interview that a female teacher and an educational assistant were among the dead.